On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 5:45 PM Jim Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> ....like most of our
> senses, hearing is logarithmic both with respect to frequency and
> loudness. This means that our discrimination of one frequency as
> compared to another increases with decreasing frequency....

this is the Weber-Fechner law. It is claimed to hold true for physical
perceptions, e.g a blindfolded person’s perception of an increase in a
weight he is holding is proportional to the percentage increases, not to
the absolute amount of weight added.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law

73,
Tony KT0NY
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